Jul 22, 2021
Green sea turtles are the last to arrive to Florida’s beaches to nest. After patiently waiting, we now have our first green turtle hatchlings in the lab! Just like the leatherbacks, we have collected blood to determine if our proposed method can work for this species as well.
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When a sea turtle hatches, it is impossible to identify their sex because they don’t have any sex-specific external characteristics. They don’t have sex chromosomes, instead their sex is determined by the nest incubation temperature. Recently, our lab has shown that the sex of a hatchling can be determined by the presence of a protein in their blood. Our goal is to improve this assay and develop a large-scale method that will allow us to estimate the sex ratio of a given population.
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